Zuni Lucero and Simon Ortiz make compelling points in their papers. They talk about the differences in the two cultures. How they changed schools and saw both sides of their ever changing world at a young age. How being integrated into a white community changed them, and how they felt some what of an outsider going back to their native communities. Threw their writing they can elaborate and share these experiences to those of us who have only one culture to fit into.
We all can relate to changing schools or even starting school for the first time. One who has never experienced this can only imagine being of a different culture, speaking a different language, looking differently and being the "new kid." Lucero best describes this when she states, "Made conscious of the "otherness" of Indians, my world began to divide into a world of Us and Them." Ortiz tells about her struggle in school to not speak a language he was accustoming to. "Children in school were punished and looked......
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